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About Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980 | View Entire Issue (March 30, 1953)
2 a Monday, March 10, 1953 THE CAPITAL JOURNAL, Mtm, Oregon Capital AJournal . An Independent Newspaper Established 1888 - BERNARD MAINWARING, Editor arid Publisher . '. ,: GEORGE PUTNAM, Editor Emeritus ; ;V Published avtry afternoon axcapt Sunday ot 444 Che y makato St., Salem. Phones: Business, Newsroom, Wont J, Ads, 2-2406; Society Editor, 2-2409. -, - V 'A Ml Laaaa Wlr, Sarrtaa af tka Aiaaalatat Iw aa Ma MM . . Tha Ajaaelata rtwi la nelulnli antiuad I uu aaa Iw MlUatiaa af : ', all aaa Sbpatahaa aradltad ta It at athatvba ralta to SMa nam 4 alM (an puaUahat tfcarala. suiscRirrioNRATESt v: a Carrlar: SlantM?, M.m (Is Hantbi. tT.Wi On, Ttir, lll.M. Ir Man IK Marlaa, Folk, Linn, Banton, Clackamaa an Yamhill OauMaa: MaoWilr, Wcl SU Maatiu, l Hi On, Tr, tt.OO. Br HU BMWhara la Otaaan: llmthir, ll.H: au Hantn. W.N; Ona Tiar, 111.00. Br Mall OuUldt Oiaion: MMthlr, ll.H: au alonthj, flM; Ona Taar, 115.00. OUR LEADING FOUR FLUSH ER . In Sunday papers, Senator Joseph McCarthy with a 'flourish of trumpets anounced that ha had by-passad the " Eisenhower administration by concluding an agreement with the Greek owners of 242 merchant ships to break off all trade with North Korea and Rd China. j : Hailing tha agreement as a major blow against tha Reds, McCarthy said the ship owners also hava agreed "to refuse to carry cargoes of any type from one Com munist nort to another in any part of the world. .' McCarthy aaid the agreement was negotiated by staff members of the Senate investigations subcommittee which he heads. He aaid the negotiations were carried out without the State Department or any other agency of tha government being informed about what was going , "I didn't want any interference by anyone," he ex plained. However, he said ha had no reason to believe the State Department would not "wholeheartedly ap prove' of the action. The intimation was of course that he had done what the president and State Department had fallen down on. The U. S. Constitution provides that the conduct of for eign .affairs is lodged with the president and any inter ference by b senatorial Subcommittee is an infringement on presidential prerogative, especially since the adminis tration has been cracking down on foreigners who bought surplus ships from the U. S. and were alleged to be trad ing behind the Iron Curtain. The U. S. government has foreclosed mortgages on 21 such ships in default; and other actions were pending on many other ships in default. The State Department now announces that the Greek government has agreed within the past 10 days to impose a ban upon the use of ships operating under the Greek flag to carry cargoes to or from Communist countries, And this was before McCarthy's announcement and inde pendent of it, and has still to be ratified by the Greek parliament., if f ,. vrt-, .y--rv; ? 'v t j m . Mutual Security Administrator Harold E. Stassen ac cuses McCarthy of "undermining" admin istration efforts to cut off shipping to Iron Curtain nations instead of helping it, and "it could have a very major effect if you give these Greek shipowners an endorsement." ; McCarthy, sore because of the defeat of his efforts to prevent the confirmation of Bohlen as ambassador to Russia, is merely thumbing his nose at President Eisen hower in another of the numerous four-flush plays typi cal of "McCarthyism," in his pursuit of the will-o'-the-wisp of power through the dismal swamp of vituperative demagoguery. S LEGISLATORS as Setn by Murray Wade . Rep.Mark OHatfielo JMA - WiW ' Photo frnic. ft I mi J)ammasch OnM.D.intAt legislature. Eitrwrckcu'rmantf Htcucviuiairs WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND D. J. Pulling No Punches, Prosecutes G.O. P. Solon Y DREW PEARSON. THE INCOMPARABLE JIM THORPE ( Jim Thorpe, the incomparable Indian athlete, has heard his last whistle and made his last headline. He is dead at 64, a career that blossomed early to be followed by drab, discouraging decades. ' . America's sports writers have in xecent years voted Thorpe two of the greatest honors they could vote to anyone, top' athlete of the first half of the century, and I greatest football player of the half century. He outdis tanced Babe Ruth for the first honor and Red Grange for the second. ' Thorpe played for a small school it now develops was not a college at all, only a high school, though it played such athletic greats of the day as Harvard and West Point, and beat them when Thorpe was there. His foot ball feats are legendary. Against one Harvard team ha ran the whole length of the field and in the dressing room afterward each Harvard player said he had his hands on tha tricky Indian. Thorpe easily won the all-around athletic champion ship of the world at the 1912 Olympic games, though ho had done little training for the long list of track and field events. Later it was discovered that he had played baseball for f 60 a month in the Carolina league and his honor were stripped from him. However what he did was not forgotten. It couldn't be. " The great athlete was anti-climactic as a professional baseball player, though he stayed in the big leagues six years and later played pro football. When he waa through In sports he was really through, for he had no trade or profession. He eked out a slim living, but his very last years were apparently relieved of the worst ills of poverty as money was raised for him two years ago when he was discovered broke and in need of an operation in Phila delphia. , Y : Jim Thorpe was a marvelous athlete who will never be forgotten. His eareer is of particular interest here where we too have an Indian school in which two of his sons have studied. . . BY CARL ANDERSON Henry r 1 T Wajhlngton The new Re publican Justice department hai Urted out by not pulling any punches regarding the preiecu tion of Republican, including Republican congressmen. Af a rciult. Congressman Earnest Bramblett, Republican, of Pacific Grove, 11th district of California, faces grand jury action on charges made by this column last fall of taking kick backs from his office staff, The grand jury action is be ing ordered by another Call' fornia Republican, Warren 01 ney, now . assistant attorney general In charge of the crim inal division, who as counsel for the California crime con mission am more tnan any otner one man to clean up crime In that state. Since com ing to Washington he has help ed to crack down on one noto rious figure in the California gambling world, Emelio Geor getti, whom the Democrats did nothing about, Olney alio caused havoc in the justice department by ask ing the resignation of four Democrat lawyers in his crim inal division who dragged their haels ' regarding Congressman Bramblett Ordinarily, Justice depart. ment attorneys do not like to tangle with congressmen, let alone prosecute them. This writerw supplied most of the evidence to the Justice depart ment in the case of ex-congressman Farnell Thomas of New Jersey before It prosecuted, al so part of Uie evidence regard ing ex-Congressman Andrew May of Kentucky, and publish ed the original kickback infor mation regarding Congressman Walter Brehm of Ohio. All were convicted. , ' ' Bramblett's Operations In the case of Bramblett, this column reported last fall that Mrs. Margaret Swanson, listed as working on the congress man's payroll from September 1949 to January 1951 never worked In his office. She drew the top salary in his office, 94,700, but did not work for the congressman either in Washington or in his home dis trict in California. She is the wife of Irving Bj Swanson, Re publican clerk of the house of representatives and a close friend of Bramblett's. The question arose, therefore, as to why she drew this top salary, paid her by all the tax payers supposedly for helping Brablett'a constituents, though she did no work for them. Another secretary, Vivian De Witt, was approached by Bramblett with an offer to boost her salary from $3,400 to 95,000 a year provided she would pay him $5,000 cash in advance. She refused, and shortly thereafter left the con gressman's employ. Another secretary working for Congressman " Bramblett, Mrs. Dee Bundy, was given a salary Increase In January 1951 from $2,100 to $8,000. She de nied giving any kickback, said her sudden incrense was due to extra work. Her husband, in cidentally, was also listed on the Bramblett payroll. Mrs. Bramblett also drew $3,400 a year though was seldom seen around the office. The above informalton waa turned over to the FBI by this columnist last fall, and the FBI, after a careful investigation, submitted the evidence to the justice department: There, less er officials inherited from the Democratic administration, rec- commended against prosecution Some of them may have re viewed the facts too hastily. But at any rate they initialed the recommendation not to presecute. These attorneys in- eluded Francis Walker, nephew of the 1 a t e Jimmy Walker, mayor of New York; Jiutinius Gould, Fred Strine and Ray mond Whearty. Their new Republican chief, Warren Olney, however, him, self a Callfornian and a Re publican, reviewed the case against his fellow Republican and decided it should go to a grand jury. Pauley's Private Island There's a political paradox that Harry Truman may not realize in the fact that he's chosen Cocoanut Island, the private island of oilman Ed Pauley, for his Hawaiian vaca tion. - Pauley has always nosed as the great political promoter of Harry s. Truman. And it's true that at the Chicago convention of 1944 it was Big Ed who ran back and forth from the con vention floor to a private of fice under the speakers' nlat- form wangling key delegates 10 switcn from Wallace to Tru man. But in 1948 it was a differ ent story. After Truman got the 1948 nomination. Paulev act. ually discouraged friends from contributing. Came Truman's surnrise vic tory over Dewey, however, and Big Ed was on deck immedi ately after election day with $85,000 of post-dated checks. eagerly though belatedly climbing aboard the Truman band wagon. In fact, he went to the White House personally to take credit for the checks, did not dwell on the fact that they were post-dated. it was partly because of Pauley's fast recovery right after election that Truman made an ambassadorial ap pointment that cost him plenty of headaches Mayor William O'Dwyer of New York as am bassador to Mexico. Pauley was working on an oil conces sion with the Mexican govern ment at that time, also wanted a U. S. government loan to build a ' Mexican government refinery. Ed Flynn, boss of the Bronx, also had Interests in Mexico. . So they sold Truman on the Idea of appointing O'Dwyer to this key post. That's the inside storv of how O'Dwyer went to' Mexico where he's been ever since a story, Incidentally, which the ex-presldent probably doesn't know even today as he vaca tions on Pauley's private island. i Mailbag Karl Haartz. Andover. Mass. Re your suggestion that all motorists be assessed $.001 for every life lost on 'the hlshwav. Congressman Jack Dempsey of New Mexico recently told the! American Association of State Highway Officials that, despite reckless drivers, congress has failed to assume its responsible PICASSO FAILS TO PLEASE New Terk Times ' Pablo Picasso is one of the great artists of the generation. In fact, nature seems to have paid ao ' much attention to making him a great artist that she forgot to give him any sense of logic in the political field. The result is that M. Picasso, an individualist , who has gone his own impetous way in art, has enmeshed him' self with a philosophy and i regime which aims at produc ing men without faces . and human beings without indivi duality. Why this could be is hard to : say. Why Plcosso should- hate a tyrant in Spain and gladly accept a Russian tyrant whose butcheries are on a far vaster scale and whose tyranny . is for more pervasive one just doesn't know. But even Picasso, in spite of all his devotion to commu nism, can transgress the party line. He drew a memorial portrait of Joseph Stalin. It does not look much like Jos eph Stalin except around the mustache, but that was the way M. Picasso felt about the subject. The picture was, he said, drawn "according to my inspiration." He added, "If my drawing does not please them it is just too bad." Now he has been rebuked, as has the edi tor of the French magazine in which the Stalin drawing appeared. He is definitely out of line. He is perhaps ever so slightly tainted with bour geois deviationlsm. It is thought that the Com munists will not throw him out he . still can serve as window dressing. But If he really wished t o test the Utopian nature of the Russian, so to speak, civilzation, he should take the Stalin portrait under his arm, go to Moscow and argue it, out man to man with Mr. Malenkov. When he came back, if he did come back, we suspect his commu nism would be ot a paler cast. Pefhaps it would have a touch of Tltolsm in it. Salem was yesterday Jilt by an invasion" of beggars and five were collected by the police and brought to the station to tell their troubles to Judge El gin. Each was sentenced to five days of hard labor. Salem's entire fire depart ment responded to an alarm turned in from the Owl room ing house, corner of Ferry and Commercial streets, tills morn ing and wrecked the hose cart in their hurry to reach a fire that did not exist. Following the automobile pumper the fire team and hose wagon was un able to- negotiate the turn at the corner of Chemeketa and Commercial streets and : the hose cart piled up in the of- fice of the Salem, Falls City & western Lumber company, The team was not hurt but the hose cart will require thorough overhaul before it can respond to another alarm. - ity to allot funds for better highways and that 75 per cent of funds paid in gasoline and excise taxes by citizens are be ing diverted to usage other than highway building and mainte nance. Mrs. E. A. Walker. Collcee Park, Md. My comment that Mrs. Fleur Cowles, wife of the Look magazine publisher, would not be welcome at the Court of St. James' was based on the long-standing tradition and custom that divorcees are not presented at court. Mrs. Cowles is a divorcee , . '. My position on lady ambassadors was made clear when I stated, February S3, that Mrs. Hiram Houghton, an extremely able woman with a wide under standing of foreign relations. would probably lose out on a proposed appointment as am bassador to The Netherlands because of informal ODDosition by the Dutch to lady diplomats. xnis was no reflection on her. But it remains a fact that Eu ropean nations, except in Scan. dinavla, do not welcome women as ambassadors. . (Oopfriihl, 1MI) Salem3SYearsAgo ly IEN MAXWELL March 10.1915 ' Drager Fruit company's plant at the corner of Trade and Cot tage streets was destroyed by fire last night entailing a loss of $40,000. In additioon to ma chinery the plant contained 200 tons of prunes, 10,000 pounds of dried loganberries, 12,000 bushels of potatoes and 12,000 empty sacks. Frank Meredith, secretary of the state fair board, has re signed and his place will be taken by W. Al Jones of Jo seph, a member of the fair board who resigned to become secretary at a salary af $2000 a year. . :. ', . That women are both moral ly and constitutionally barred from engaging in the saloon traffic or frequentftig places where liquor is dispensed to males, from the very nature of things if not by the laws of mankind, is the unqualified opinion of the supreme court of Oregon as expressed in an opinion today written by Jus tice Eakin. . BY BECK Actions You Regret State highway commission yesterday afternoon elected E. I. Cantine of Portland state highway engineer to succeed Major Bowlby. f a&MT IT &dOraja "I &JQJIfi ( MAKING tOCM V'mSS.S TOUT . FOOL OF TMLVa7 -rSiT A, , ' lJUH S-lVr t OONT KNOW WHAT aovlftlv v , lt-"fS5 TMPJKIMOjOS'TOUT V7 MaSSS '- ; tm. tHott-om WHO CAKfT atestavT me temptation c 1 '.' . . . .. .. . - A READY-MADE AUDIENCE THAT'S WMTINS FOR A PARADE- . a-o .. I POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER Today's Top Athlete Is - " Business Man, Hal Finds By HAL IOYLE Wilmington, N. C, W) The. and they net him about $20,000 a season. A caterpillar traction engine pulling six plows attracted con siderable attention on Front street this morning. It Is the property of L. H. McMahan who uses the machine for cul tivating his 500-acre orchard. 1Z5 acres or grain and 62 acres of hops. There are but four other of these big traction en gines in the country. (Mr. Mc Mahan, 891 N. Front street. says this gas tractor weighed 10 tons, cost near $5000 and was a very capable machine). . A LEGAL SCANDAL ' (Medford Mail-Tribune) , . Oregon's "habitual crim inal" law needs revision and amendment. As now con structed, and too often inter preted, it leads to scandalous abuses and inexcusable injustices. The recent case of Joe Fosul of Oregon City is a good example. Here was an illiterate. friendless "skid-row" candi date, whose fourth offense was to pick lip some scrap-lead from a paper mill dump val ued at $2.50. . I The policeman who made the arrest was surprised to learn later that the charge instead ot being petit lar ceny, was robbery a felony and this branded "No-good" Joe, aged 32 years, an habit ual and Incurable criminal, promptly sentenced to spend the rest of his life in the penl- tentiaryl Not until he had served there 25 years was any real effort made to secure his re lease. Such belated action is now being considered. . . The law as we know it is all wrong, as it is now written. Only the general high quality of Oregon's judiciary and our law-enforcement officers, has prevented a major scandal of such proportions that all right m inning citizens of the state would be up in arms against i.t It should 'be radlcallv amended, If not repealed. tramp athlete is passing out of the sports picture. The top professional athletes today often have business brains as well as muscle, and when old Father Time finally forces them out of competition they can retire gracefully with a nice, nest egg to start a fresh eareer, Typical of these new businessmen-athletes is Otto Gra ham, 31-year old .star quarter back of the Cleveland Browns football team, who is vacation ing here with his pretty wife, Beverly. Passing touchdown passes is Ottq's specialty he has thrown more than 100 in his seven-year career as a pro OPN FORUM Thinks Sheep Will Desecrate Cemetery to tne jsaitor: will tne coun ty court and Salem city ad ministration cooperate in an novel plan to clean up the I.O.O.K. cemetery? Will they desecrate the last resting place of Salem's pio neer fathers and mothers by pasturing with sheep? The condition of the ceme tery is a disgrace, but would It not- be better to let it remain as it is than to broadcast to the world this barbaric method of beautifying it? Surely there must be a better solution to the problem, .';.. HOWARD A DOAK Identify 450 Pound Skull as Mastodon Portland ) A fossil found ia years ago near Unity in Eastern Oregon has been iden tified as the skull of a prede cessor of ice-age mastodons. Alonzo W. Hancock, who found the skull, said the iden tification was made recently by Dr. George Gaylord Simp son, of the American Museum of Natural History. He said the 450-pound skull was from a Mlomastodon Merriama which lived 12 to 20 mlUion years ago in the Miocene period. Some athletes with an in come like that would be con tent to spend the rest of tha year fishing or Just plain resting. But not Otto; He is active in a food packing con cern and acts as an assistant branch manager in Cleveland for a life insurance company. "When I do drop out of pro fessional football, I'll just go a little deeper into life insur ance," he said. "I figure you can't comneta in football much after 35 at the ' latest and I don't want to play after I've passed my peak." otto already has outlasted the ordinary athlete's competi tive lifetime because he takes almost religious care to keep in shafe. "I don't drink or smoke, and never have," he said. "I don't say that drinking or smoking in moderation hurt any adult athlete but they can't possibly do him any good either." Graham is so sold on the vir tues of proper conditioning that he makes 40 to 80 speeches a year on the subject to high school groups. A six-foot 200 pounder. Gra- ham keeps fit with golf during the off season. He is handsome, boyish looking, and despite his size resembles the music teach- . er he once wanted to be more ; than a professional athlete. . , v His passion for keeping in . perfect condition has paid off. He rarely has been hurt, never has missed playing in a game during his seven years as a pro. Of course, a quarterback doesn't have to take as many knocks as- some of the other players," he said grinning. "Athletics has been very good to me. It keeps a man down to earth. And playing a sport really teaches- you the things you have to know in business how to get along . with people, how to cooperate with the other fellow. "When I do finally have to give up football, I'll have no complaints." ;: . The sport has given him a fine living, enabled him and Beverly to "Start a family of thhree kids" and provided him a stepping stone to a successful business career. "I've got a lot to be grate ful for," said Otto. I ff a"aaa -f aflp . aaMBBaaaBaMajkaaaaa! . IK no fuss no muss no bother no dirt taFK3-tO-lOQ0 1ME CLEAN FUEL CAPITOL LUMBER CO. PHONt 3-M62 For the Pleasure of "Your Majesties" 1 1 Other Prizes Awarded Each Monday Night TELEVISION SETS TO BE AWARDED Monday, Mar. 2 Monday. Mar. 16 Monday. Mar. 30 IYTHI CAPITOL SHOPPING CENTER FREE PARKING - V -1 jA Lit of i6-n-tlta.t GEORGE HUGGINS -By- SID BOISE We often hear it said that "Auto insurance costs so much more than it used to." Well, for those of us with a long memory we 11 have to agree that we spend more dollars for auto Insurance today than we did in 1941, for example, but let s pursue the subject Just a little further. In 1941 a certain ."popular model car" sold new for $1100.' The cost of Public LiabiUty, Property Damage, Compre "fS'Ji"' Fir ,nd lBeli " 50 deductible collision was JS8.76 per year, or $5.34 per $100 of valuation. Today, toe same car sells new for $2650. The cost of the same SFA0'.1 uSonceJ; now W3 00. or a cost per $100 valu ation of $3.89. The rate now is $1.45 less per $100 of insurance than it was in 1941! S'S--iS'.Vff!?0,' J?te ta Salem o'4 changed (except tSh.Vf htly) f0 '"ny.years, but the value of your EToJL " fn"ease1 considerably so most of us carry !S!2,riSSiJthin wedLd." few ye" o. The same ml i?S..K4hl0UH BpplIed t0 ,u'0 insurance. So before 3S!iS2S aw H?toilJanc Industry too harshly, let's re !? ..' .hat the RATE ,or ,ut0 insurance is LESS than liSat vATylrDfKd.w,n,,t h" actually happened la that YOU ARE BUYING MORE INSURANCE. is 171 N. Chnreh INSURANCE PHONE 3-9119 IALEM He tsatW Htck (skm af retarrn' Ihta"